Fun Home shows how tolerance has progressed over generations
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor Last weekend, I had the great privilege of seeing the Broadway show Fun Home for free, thanks to F&M alumnus James Lapine…
Back to Future day marks important date, film fails to predict future
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 was an important day for film buffs and science fiction fans alike. Oct. 21 was Back to the…
Sicario falls short of becoming one of this year’s great films
By Preman Koshar II Arts & Entertainment Editor If Denis Villeneuve’s newest film, Sicario, could be defined with a single word, it would be anxiety. Within minutes of opening, guns…
Three Sisters and A Wolf features eclectic scenes, interpretive dance
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor Two weekends ago, I had the good fortune to have the opportunity to see the play Three Sisters and A Wolf in…
Throwback Song of the Week: Piano Man by Billy Joel
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor This week’s throwback is Piano Man by Billy Joel. Billy Joel has been an icon of classic rock since the 1960s, when…
Mr. Holmes features strong acting, but is marred by weak plot
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor Mr. Holmes, directed by Bill Condon, is the film industry’s latest take on Sherlock Holmes. Ian McKellan stars as the elderly and…
A Knight’s Tale has plenty of swordplay, little character development
by Preman Koshar || Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor In honor of what would have been Heath Ledger’s 36th birthday, on April 4th I watched A Knight’s Tale for the…
Oscar predictions have arrived, results only hours away
By Preman Koshar || Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor Ah, the Academy Awards. It’s finally time. The ballots have already been cast, the outcome already decided. But there’s still time…
Fury rolls in, stalls, fails to make impact at box office
By Preman Koshar II Layout Assistant It’s World War II. We’ve all learned about it; we all know the winners and the losers, the heroes and the villains. “Fury,” directed…
Mockingjay takes flight, helped by Howard’s superb score
By Preman Koshar, Layout Assistant|| The third installment of the Hunger Games series, “Mockingjay: Part I,” swoops in quietly, much like its namesake, and reiterates everything the book did wrong. This…
Big Hero 6 fails to save itself from mediocrity, racism
By Preman Koshar, Layout Assistant Big Hero 6 is an important film — it’s one of the first culturally diverse mainstream action flicks to hit America. But it’s also one of the…
Interstellar impresses with strong visuals, grand scale
By Preman Koshar, Layout Assistant || “Space. The Final Frontier.” These are the opening lines of Star Trek, and Interstellar finally shows audiences just what that means and how magnificent space…
Gyllenhaal gives Oscar-worthy performance, best of career
By Preman Koshar, Layout Assistant || Nightcrawler, directed by Dan Gilroy, is the cinematic equivalent of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. The film slinks slowly through the plot, hiding…
Maroon 5’s newest album, V, offers nothing new
By Preman Koshar, Staff Writer || Maroon 5’s fifth album, V (pronounced “five”), is, at the same time, something new and something old. The album was released Aug. 29, a little…
The Drop does not drop ball, entertains audiences
By Preman Koshar, Contributing Writer || Watching The Drop is like wading through a gritty smokescreen. As the story pushes though the viscous air, the characters appear, just loose smoke at…